SCHROEDER v. LAWRENCE


372 Mass. 1 (1977)

359 N.E.2d 1301

LUCIENE F. SCHROEDER vs. KNOWLES B. LAWRENCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

February 15, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph C. Copeland for the plaintiff.

Robert G. Conley, Jacob J. Locke & David M. Gould, for the defendant, submitted a brief.

Present: QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

At the suggestion of her family doctor, the plaintiff Luciene F. Schroeder, then thirty-two years of age, complaining of a lump in her throat, went to see the defendant Knowles B. Lawrence, a general surgeon with a special interest in cancer and head and neck surgery. The defendant examined the plaintiff on May 17, 1966, and diagnosed her condition as an adenoma ("nontoxic" tumor) occupying most of the left lobe...

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